Incompetence Demonstrated

Concerning the Democratic Party’s caucus-reporting mess in Iowa, Damon Linker at The Week notes the real fallout.

Democrats are dying to do things with government. That's even truer this cycle than others, when candidates of a newly energized left are proposing litanies of stupefyingly complex and expensive policies. But voters are only going to endorse agendas like that if they feel they can trust America's institutions and elites to enact them with competence.

The sad fact is that Monday night was stunning display of rank incompetence. "You mean this is who you want to put in charge of taking over health-care delivery from sea to shining sea?" That isn't a thought you want running through the heads of voters as they contemplate which party to support in November 2020.

Linker adds that Trump thrives in this sort of chaos. Of course he does, what work environment is more chaotic than succeeding as a developer in the New York City swamp of organized crime, corrupt unions, militant interest groups, power-mad bureaucrats, shadowy wealth and political machines? It’s a Machiavellian graduate school from which Trump graduated cum laude.